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Santa Rosa staff weigh outside firm or restructured in-house unit to resume internal audits
Summary
Staff reviewed a 2016 Moss Adams internal-controls review, described why the city's single-person internal audit approach proved unsustainable, and proposed soliciting proposals from outside firms to refresh and retest prior findings.
Santa Rosa City staff say they plan to solicit proposals from outside firms to refresh a 2016 internal-controls audit and to retest controls after an earlier in-house effort faltered.
The update, presented to the Santa Rosa City Long-Term Financial Policy Subcommittee by staff member Alan Alden, reviewed the city's 02/2016 engagement with Moss Adams and the subsequent attempt to create an internal audit function. Alden said the city hired a single internal auditor in 02/2016 after Moss Adams identified internal-control weaknesses; that auditor later left in 2020 and the position has not been refilled.
Alden said the Moss Adams review produced 68 comments,…
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